Hybrid/Remote Semantic Kernel Contract Job Trends

Microsoft Semantic Kernel
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Semantic Kernel skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 305 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Semantic Kernel 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.010% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.038% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 - -
UK median daily rate £575 - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Work from Home

Semantic Kernel falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 2,632 3,276 5,035
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 27.12% 25.87% 24.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,793 2,202 3,745
10th Percentile £350 £325 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £550 £535
Median % change year-on-year -9.00% +2.80% -2.73%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £650
90th Percentile £800 £850 £750
UK median daily rate £501 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.00% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 72 62 56
10th Percentile £31.25 £36.30 £38.25
25th Percentile £41.13 - £55.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £43.00 £64.50
Median % change year-on-year +51.16% -33.33% +1.98%
75th Percentile - £62.50 £73.75
90th Percentile £68.00 £74.95 £77.13
UK median hourly rate £54.70 £61.60 £60.00
% change year-on-year -11.20% +2.67% -4.13%

Semantic Kernel
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure AI
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Machine Learning
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Consultant
1 1 (100.00%) Data Consultant
1 1 (100.00%) Data Science Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) LangChain
1 1 (100.00%) Pandas
1 1 (100.00%) PyTorch
1 1 (100.00%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) Data Science
1 1 (100.00%) Generative AI
1 1 (100.00%) LLM
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Probabilistic Modelling
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Foundry